Cutting device for cigar-rolling machines.



No. 634,48I. Pa'tentd on. 10, I899. I c. B. SCHULTZ.

CUTTING DEVICE FOR CIGAR ROLLING MACHINES.

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UNITE STATES- PATENT OFFICE.

CLARENCE B. SCHULTZ, on CHARLOTTENBURG, GERMANY.

'CUTT lNG DEVICE FOR ClGAR-ROLLING MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 634,481, dated October 10, 1899. Application filed December 14, 1896 Serial No. 615,589. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLARENCE B. Senor/r2, engineer, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chatlottenburgfin the Province of Brandenburg, Prussia, German Empire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cutting Devices for Cigar Rolling Ma' chines, for which I have obtained Letters Pat- 13,514, dated November 30, 1896; in Norway,

No. 6,076, dated December 4,1896; in Hun gary, No. 12,410, dated January 31, 1898; in Austria, No. 48/1, 147, dated February 18,

1898; in Spain, No. 22,216, dated March 24:, 1898, and in Italy, No. lie/47,216, dated" March 31, 1898;) and I do herebydeclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descrip ticn of the invention, such as will enable oth ers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. I

My invention consists of means whereby the tuck of a cigar may be'cut sharp and straight across without breaking the wrapper, as will be hereinafter set forth.

Figure 1 represents a partial elevation and partial vertical section of a cutting device of a cigar rolling or making machine embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a section on line m at, Fig. 1. Figs. 8 and 4represent side elevations of the blades or knives and their carriers. Fig. 5 represents a side'elevation of the machine with its various parts in as-.

sembled position. Fig. 6 represents a plan view of certain of the parts shown in Fig. 5Q Fig. 7 represents an end elevation of jaws employed for retaining a cigar in the machine while its end is being cut.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

Referring to the drawings, a and b designate two bars or stocks which, placed side by side, carry the concave knives or blades a, Z),

respectively, and are guided in grooves g' inthe frame m, the knife a being adapted to be brought up close to the cigar a to be out, while the other knife 6' is adapted to shear or cut squarely across the same, for which purpose by the link '5.

' it is desirable to move the bars a b in order to advance the knives and then to separate or open the same. For this purpose I employ the driving-shaft 0 and provide the bar Ct with the hanger a on one side of which are the double levers c and the pin it, said levers being connected with said hanger by the screw f.

In the bar a is the longitudina-lly-extending slot a in which freely enters the stud Z on the bar I). p

Bearing against the lever e is the spring o for keeping said lever against the stud Z. Mounted on the stud (Z is the elbow-lever c, the same resting upon the stud t on the lever e and having the horn c projecting therefrom.

7t designates a lever which swings on the screw or stud u on the bar 1) and has its lower end forked and entering the groove r in the segmen t q, the latter being keyed or otherwise secured to the shaft 0.

Beside the lever h is the link i, which swings on the stud a and has a slot which receives the stud 7c of the bar a.

s designates a nose on the frame of the machine, the same being adapted to be struck On the side of the segment qare two studs 42 and p, which are so disposed that when the segment is turned the studn pushes the lever e, and with it the bar a, to the right until the The bar a is pushed simultaneously by means of the link i to the left, when the knives open or separate and the cigar may be removed and a new bunch or cigar supplied.

The cigar z is placed between the jaws .2

and z when said jaws are in their opened position, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. The jaws z and 2 when in their closed position, as shown in full lines in Fig. 7, firmly retain the cigar z in position while its end is being out by the knives or blades c and b.

The jaws z and e are opened and closed at the proper intervels through the action of the rods a which latter are secured to the pinions b near the peripheries thereof, so that as the said pinions rotate the rods a will be carried around by them, causing the jaws ,2

and 2 whose lower bifurcated extremities o straddle the said rods, to be actuated so as to alternately open and close the jaws, as will be readily apparent.

The jaws e are retained in their normal positions by springs 0 and the object of said springs is'to permit the jaws to close mere or less, according to the varying thicknesses of the cigars placed between them and the jaws ,2, it being evident that by these means all danger of crushing a cigar is removed, it being also apparent that if said jaws '2 were rigid the same would crush a cigar if the latter were thicker than the space between the jaws z anc The pinions b are driven by the spur-wheels [1* on the main driving-shaft e In contemporaneously-pending applications filed by me December 14, 1896, bearing Serial Nos. (315,588 and 015,590, I have shown and described certain features of mechanism to which I herein make no claim.

The devices herewith shown for moving the cigar or bunch of tobacco toward the tipshaper are claimed in another application for Letters Patent filed December 14, 1896, Serial No. 615,590.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A cutting device for a cigar consisting of bars, and a knife on each of the same, said bars being adapted to move-in opposite direotions, and means for causing one knife to ap preach the cigar and temporarily stop in proximity thereto, and means for causing said other knife to continue its movement and shear the same.

2. In a device substantially as describedflhe coacting knives a and b thelever h, and the double lover a for opening and closing the knives a, Z), a rotatable shaft, connections common to said shaft and levers for operating the latter, and means for temporarily interrupting the progression of one knife, while the other knife continues its movement.

3. In a device substantially as described,the segment q having studs n and p thereon, the lever 7t, the lever e and the link t', knives adapted to move in opposite directions, and connecting mechanism intermediate said levers and knives.

4. In a device substantially as describechthe lever t, and the nose 5 on, the frame m, in cornbiuation with the openingand-closin g knives, the latter being adapted to move in opposite directions, and means for actuating said lever and knives.

5. Inadevice substantiallyas described,the combination of the lever c with the stud t, the elbow-lever c the opening-and-closingknives, the latter moving in opposite directions, and means for operating said levers and knives.

Inwitness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

GHARLEs H. S. SCHULTZ, M. PALMIE. 

